Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

Includes Hans Wehr and al-Mufradat — All in One Search

تناشدوا

Root: نشد

Form: 6

Full Definition

تناشدواVI They recited [poetry] one to another.
2 El-Aashà, in the following verse, رَبِّى كَرِيمٌ لَا يُكَدِّرُ نِعْمَةً وَإِذَا تُنُوشِدَ فِى المَهَارِقِ أَنْشَدَا [My lord is generous; he does not sully a favour: and when he is asked, or begged, or besought, in papers, he gives], means, accord. to AO, that En-Noamán Ibn-El-Mundhir, when asked, or begged, or besought, to write grants to poets (جَوَائِز), gave: تنوشد is here for نُشِدَ, meaning سُئِلَ.
Lane's Lexicon + Hans Wehr + Mufradat

Three dictionaries. One search.

"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."

47,000+ classical entries Root-based navigation Full text search Hyperlinked definitions
Try Now

Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more